Established in 1981 Amrop Hellas is leading Executive Search and Leadership Advisory firm in Greece. Through its forty-year presence, Amrop Hellas has carried out numerous projects for more than 500 companies across most industries in the public and private sectors, from large organizations to family-owned businesses and startups. Our added value is based on our entrepreneurial approach and on our central philosophy which is the deep and solid understanding of the context, of both our client and the executives.
Amrop Hellas is committed to matching the organizational needs of its clients with the career objectives of executives. Focusing on the unique needs of our clients we have the breadth of experience and expertise necessary to provide change-ready leaders who can help businesses for what comes next. Our success rate in Executive Search is over 94%, based on the placed executive’s at-least 2-year stay with the employer, while more than 70% of them have been further developed within the first three years after placement. This has established Amrop Hellas as the leading "quality" Executive Search firm in Greece. It’s worth mentioning that our experience includes the setup of more than 10 successfully implemented startups.
Beyond Executive Search, we accompany our clients to address and solve critical leadership issues with our in-depth Leadership Assessment and Organizational programs.
Our expertise covers a broad range of industry sectors encompassing FMCG, TMT, Retail, Energy & Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics, Healthcare, Real Estate & Hospitality, Financial Services across a spectrum of business functions such as CEOs, and other CxO functions General & Commercial Management, Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Production, Engineering, and IT.
Our team members are tightly connected with all Amrop offices around the world and all active within Amrop’s Global Industry Practices.
Our corporate culture is defined by our entrepreneurial approach, continuous attention to evolving business practices, and by our passion for achieving quality in our results.
We maintain our competitive edge by keeping abreast of the changes in the global and local business environments that impact executives’ qualities and skills.
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Looking back at the past 35 years of international company expansion in Greece, it's clear that the shift from expat-driven management to locally managed organizations has been a gradual process, but not always a smooth one.
In that transition, foreign executives “ran” the local entities with the goal of preparing the next generation of local leadership. Once this goal was met, they were expected to pass the baton and step back.
One of the core ideas foreign executives tried to instill was the value of accountability, handing over real responsibility to local managers and holding them to results. That’s how real growth in international markets is built, not through endless oversight, but through empowerment and ownership.
And yet, we still see a widespread disconnect between what’s preached and what’s practiced.
A common example: local leadership is told they’re accountable, but then denied basic authority, like choosing their own executive search and assessment partners. This practice undermines both results and motivation.
A critical factor in company performance across international markets is the quality of leadership. Choosing the right search and advisory partners is part of that, yet too often it’s decided centrally, based on long-standing personal ties, not merit.
Why? Because Regional HQs often default to familiar relationships and past “successes” with certain firms, regardless of whether those firms actually understand the local business context.
And here’s the irony: these agreements are made in the name of alignment, but they actively block alignment. They ignore the people best positioned to assess what’s needed, the local leaders.
We've seen strong executive search firms in London or Paris selected for roles in Greece simply because they performed well in other industries or countries. That doesn’t mean they’re right for local challenges.
The only fair and effective approach is to let clients and local leadership conduct their own assessments, trust their judgment, and choose the best partner for the task at hand.
This isn’t about challenging authority, it’s about unlocking performance.
We’ve seen, time and again, how imposed partnerships lead to worse outcomes. Clients suffer, candidates don’t match, and transformation stalls. And all this in the name of “control.”
True accountability means giving local leadership the power to act. And if people are truly considered the key to better performance and long-term investment value, then they must be trusted to choose the best.
Smart decision-making is open, not rigid. It trusts those closest to the challenge to make the call.
For the past 35 years, Christos Athanasas has led Amrop Greece, one of the leading executive search and assessment firms, placing over 3,500 leaders across more than 500 companies in Greece and abroad. He is a Chemical Engineer with prior experience as a General Manager in the food industry.
